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Signalling Systems: - System Which Allows Various Network Components To Exchange Information
Signalling Systems: - System Which Allows Various Network Components To Exchange Information
Signalling Systems: - System Which Allows Various Network Components To Exchange Information
– Subscriber Signalling
• Applied on Access Links
• Tends to be only Call Control
• Relatively Simple
• e.g. DSS1 in ISDN
– Network Signalling
• In the network
• Call Control and Network Control
• Complex
• e.g Signalling System 7 (SS7)
Signalling
• Types of signalling
– in-band signalling
• signalling messages carried in same
channel as user information
• e.g.
– TCP/IP
– analogue access links in telephone
networks
– out-band signalling
• Separate signalling channel for signalling
messages
• e.g.
– ISDN access links (Frame Relay)
– SS7
Signalling
O p e r a tio n s , M o b ile
T r a n s a c t io n C a ll c o n tr o l
m a in te n a n c e a n d a p p lic a t io n
s e r v ic e s a p p lic a t io n s e r v ic e s
a d m in is t r a t io n p a r t s e r v ic e s
T r a n s a c t io n T r a n s a c tio n T r a n s a c t io n
c a p a b ilitie s c a p a b ilitie s c a p a b ilit ie s
a p p lic a t io n a p p lic a t io n a p p lic a t io n
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S ig n a llin g c o n n e c t io n c o n t r o l p a r t ( S C C P )
(L e ve l 4 )
M e s s a g e tra n s fe rl p a rt (M T P )
( L e v e ls 1 - 3 )
F ig u r e Q 5
S S 7 P r o to c o l A r c h ite c tu r e
Signalling
• SS7
– Concerned with connection set-up and network
management
– Defined in Q700 series
– Network components are
• Signalling Points
– Process signalling messages
• Signalling Transfer Points
– SPs with switching facilities
• Signalling links
Signalling
– User Parts
• Equivalent to layer 4
• These typically relate to the control of
specific types of calls
– e.g. ISDN User Part
– Used to set-up ISDN calls
Signalling